[UA] (no subject)

[Joe Murphy (Broin)]

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From: "Jason Schneiderman" <jadasc at ma.ultranet.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] (no subject)


> >LARP? eek! my skin shivers at the thought. I have
> >participated in two of these... travesties and the
> >most fun i had was in the pub after it was all over.
> >walking around in the mud with a cardboard sword
> >looking for a dragon (actually a skinny little guy in
> >a toga) doesnt push anything resembling (sp?) one of
> >my buttons. sorry. rant over.
>
> You're thinking of live-combat LARPs. They're more popular on your side of
> the ocean. :) The live-action gaming that's being discussed here is more
> like tabletop, save that it takes place in a larger room, uses some other
> randomizer than dice, and is done through physical action and dialogue
> rather than description.
>
> I think that a UA LARP would be great. I also think that it'd have to be
> done custom, rather than through a published, one-size-fits-all set of
LARP
> rules like MET or Passion Play.

I'd probably use the Head Count system from Underground. No wait, that's the
superhero game. I meant UnderWorld.

It's quite simple, quite elegant, and uses coins. So all the plutomancers
would be happy. =)

And a UA LARP would definitely work. The setting's reale-worlde enough that
newbies could join in without having to know a lot of the background. Heck,
I ran 5 sessions of UA without touching on Avatars at all, and the game
didn't suffer particularly.

It was a road trip, too. The characters all graduated together, somewhere
near Seattle. At the end of the first session, Something Awful happened to
their home town - each PC remembered a different, gruesome finale. We didn't
get to play through a lot, but the DavidLynchian setting was quite
liberating. Quite low tech, quite eerie, and lots of forest and road.

Joe.
--
Joe Murphy (Broin)
broin at notzen.com

"You'll regret being so damn abusive when
the electric UFO gods transphase in from
Dimension 10 to appoint me manager of
the universe."  - The Drummer, Planetary.




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